| Description |
xx, 359 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The PRO-ED classics series |
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PRO-ED classics series.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Richard L. Masland -- A biographical sketch of Samuel Torrey Orton -- Part I. Reading, Writing, and Speech Problems in Children. Introduction -- Language losses in the adult as the key to the developmental disorders in children -- Certain disorders in the development of language in children -- Interpretation and treatment of certain disorders of language in children -- Part II. Selected Papers by Samuel Torrey Orton. The Philosophy of Psychiatry -- "Word Blindness" in School Children -- Specific Reading Disability -- Strephosymbolia -- Neurological Studies of Some Education Deviates from Iowa Schools -- A Pyhysiological Theory of Reading Disability and Stuttering in Children -- The Neurological Basis of Elementary Education -- The "Sight Reading" Method of Teaching Reading as a Source of Reading Disability -- Familial Occurrence of Disorders in Acquisition of Language -- Some Studies in the Language Function -- Special Disability in Spelling -- Special Disability in Writing, with Anna Gillingham -- The Development of Speech Understanding in Relation to Intelligence -- Visual Functions in Strephosymbolia -- Some Disorders in the Language Development of Children -- Some Studies in the Reading Disability. |
| Note |
Rev. ed. of: Reading, writing, and speech problems in children. c1937. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 327-328. |
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"Works by Samuel Torrey Orton": pages 341-343. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Subject |
Learning disabled children -- Education.
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Child development.
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Children -- Language.
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Remedial teaching.
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| Added Author |
Orton, Samuel Torrey, 1879-1948.
Reading, writing, and speech problems in children.
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| ISBN |
0890791791: $24.00 |
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